Issue | #34 |
Published | October 1962 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in July 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Elias Dane |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006). |
Characters | Elias Dane |
Synopsis | A curio shop owner uses an ancient magic bottle to shrink people, but one of his victims turns the magic of the bottle on him and escapes, as the shop owner shrinks to nothing. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #22 (July 1973) |
Characters | Eli Twiddle; Mr. Hardy |
Synopsis | A travel agent has the ability to travel in his dreams, but eventually he grows out of it. |
Genre | occult |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #48 (August 1956) |
Characters | John; Eric |
Synopsis | A space patrol find an alien world surrounded by a strange mist. They are fired on by the inhabitants and plan to retaliate, but realize too late that they were trying to keep them from the deadly mist surrounding the planet. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | The last page advertises the Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962). |
Synopsis | The humanity of the near future grow proud as they approach space travel, but when alien giants arrive they are only saved from conquest because they are too tiny to notice. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Reprinted | in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #23 (May 1973) |
Characters | Death |
Synopsis | A man finds himself lost in a fog with no idea who he is. He is approached by a stranger who offers to help him through hypnosis. The hypnosis recovers his lost memory and he realizes that he was a circus performer who has died from a fall from the high wire. The stranger is revealed as Death who was delayed from their appointed meeting and is here to usher him into the next world. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |